The girlfriend of a man charged with murdering a Graham man and burning his body March 29 was charged Thursday as an accessory to the crime.

Alamance County detectives charged Ebony Nyiesha Franklin, 29, of Calloway Drive, Mebane, with aiding Cameron Romero Graves in disposing of 47-year-old Kenneth Joel Clapp’s body after he was killed. She was charged with being an accessory after the fact of first-degree murder.

Franklin is the fifth person to be charged in connection with Clapp’s homicide.

In warrants, Alamance County detectives wrote that Franklin didn’t report Graves to police “after seeing Clapp dead inside the house (at 325 Hall Avenue), by putting fuel in her Ford Taurus allowing Cameron Romero Graves and Solomon Gerard Tate to then use the Taurus to transport the dead body of Kenneth Joel Clapp, by leaving the home again and purchasing fuel in a portable container returning it to Graves. This container of fuel was later used to accelerate a fire that was set to Clapp’s body.”

Franklin booked into the Alamance County jail under a $70,000 bond. She is scheduled for a first appearance in Alamance County District Court at 2 p.m. Friday.

Clapp’s body was discovered in the yard of a vacant home on Louis Graham Road on March 29. He’d been shot with a shotgun and his body burned. The N.C. Medical Examiner’s Office performed an autopsy on Clapp’s body March 30 and determined he died from gunshot wounds to the back and abdomen.

Detectives identified Clapp by reconstructing a receipt found in his pocket.

Detectives searched Franklin’s Taurus on April 18 and allegedly seized five samples of soil, two “hair like” fibers, a trunk mat, three DNA swabs, a “toy guitar containing blood” and a “pair of black Nike shoes containing blood.”

Franklin was also described in search warrants as telling police that Solomon Tate came to the home at 325 Hall Avenue and helped Graves move and dispose of Clapp’s body.

Graves turned himself in April 11. Martin was charged April 18. Solomon Tate was charged April 19. His father, Phillip Tate, was charged with being an accessory after detectives search his Greensboro home April 23 and allegedly found the shotgun believed to have been used in the murder.